The Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota have filed a federal lawsuit demanding $500 million from five international beer manufacturers for the cost of health care, social services and child rehabilitation caused by chronic alcoholism on the reservation. The tribe say the beer makers knowingly contributed to alcohol-related problems on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The lawsuit also targets four beer stores in Whiteclay, a Nebraska town with a population of about a dozen people on the South Dakota border that sells nearly 5 million cans of beer annually. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17859117
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